Moores Building Art Space
46 Henry Street, Fremantle WA 6160
28 June - 13 July, 2025
HIROSHI KOBAYASHI
"The idea of Patagraphy first came to me in 2016 when I was looking down at Cottesloe Beach from the footpath. My mind’s focus oscillated between the vista and my body. As I felt the wind on my skin I, started to reflect on a time long since passed; a time in 2011 and although the ripples of the waves in the distance seemed so small, I had a distinct tactile feeling of just how massive they really were. My thoughts strangely shifted to the idea of ‘entropy’ that I had often vaguely wondered about in my studio while working. I had a sudden sense of the entropy in the ocean. These ideas were chronologically different and geographically separate, and appeared in my mind, as the philosopher Henri Bergson would put it; as ‘a qualitative multiplicity’and ‘an absolute heterogeneity of elements." ~ Hiroshi Kobayashi
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Hiroshi Kobayashi investigates time, duration and the perception of depth in painting via digitised photographic images and 3D models. The invention of his own production equipment form an essential part in the creation of his visual forms.
Hiroshi Kobayashi has a B.F.A from Tokyo University of the Arts (Japan) and a M.F.A from Brooklyn College of The City University of New York (United States). Since completing his studies in 1995, Kobayashi has exhibited in Taipei, Seoul, New York, Tokyo, Washington D.C., and Beijing. Recent solo exhibitions include Paper Mountain (2018), and Heathcote Museum and Gallery (2019). He has undertaken residencies in Canada, USA, France and the Netherlands. In 2015, Kobayashi migrated to Perth and currently works from the Artsource’s OCH studios in Fremantle. He has been a finalist in the 2018 Albany Art Prize, the Perth Royal Art Prize, the 2018, 2019 and 2021 Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award, and the 2020 Joondalup IAP.
